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Rated 5 / 5 stars2012-12-15 19:30:29

Simply beautiful... it's a perfect mix of all the nostalgic themes I've grown fond of from the Final Fantasy series. This is quite honestly an auto-download for anyone that's ever played the earlier Final Fantasy game. Bravo sir, bravo!

Rated 3.5 / 5 stars2010-10-08 22:14:23

Regarding your song's name...

For a song named "A Battle Not Forgotten", it certainly won't be very memorable to me, sad to say. I will be frank and say that although I did grin & bear it and listened to the whole song, I was quite frankly bored to death listening to the guitar for 2 1/2 minutes straight. There was no change in the melody whatsoever aside from you substituting one instrument for another occasionally; the other 7 layers of the song stayed constant for almost 2 minutes. In addition, because you were slowly adding layers to the song, it wasn't even til after the 1:00 mark that it sounded somewhat interesting. I do hope you continue on this though, and would look forward to hearing a revised version.

Rated 4.5 / 5 stars2010-08-16 12:52:38

I had seen you post this for review on OCRemix, and am glad you put this here as well. Laguna's theme is one of my more favorite FF songs, so you immediately are in good favor with me. :P

That being said, there's 2 things I noted that could be fixed to make this even better.

1) The machine gun/grenade effects you used from Laguna in FF8 just don't seem to jive with the song in my opinion. The gun sounds slightly off-tempo (which can't be fixed unless you slow the song down a tiny bit).

2) During 3 parts in the song, I was getting a soft, very high pitched tinny sound coming out of my right headphone from 2:12 - 2:27, again at 2:37 - 2:47, then once again from 3:34 - 3:56. It was very distracting, and sounded like a misplaced note.

Other than that, loved the song, and hope you can make it even better and get it posted to OCRemix. :)

This will be revised sometime pretty soon (although the revision will not be posted here - I rather like having a unique Newgrounds & OCR edit of the same track), so you can keep an eye out for it on OCR.

The gun sound wasn't actually supposed to line up - it just so happens to almost work that way, so I won't be adjusting for it. I have a personal preference towards the SFX, so they'll probably stay, too. To each their own.

The squeaky sound is a part of the drum set. I'll center pan it more so it's less distracting - thanks for pointing it out.

Rated 4.5 / 5 stars2010-03-23 12:40:33

Love it, but I'm just wishing there was more

I agree with all the other reviews so far... it's very clean, relaxing, and peaceful. I just really wish that you'd carried the reinterpretation further and longer; I could easily see this blossoming into a full orchestral masterpiece with more strings and brass.

Rated 5 / 5 stars2009-12-07 22:30:52

Chaotic, bouncy, and quite simply wonderful.

I remember first hearing this song on the McRolled YouTube videos... I'm quite shocked at how well you remixed this. The sounds used fit the song perfectly... chaotic, loud w/o being distorted (great mastering done on this btw), and at points it's got a nice playful vibe throughout. 10'd/5'd. :)